Ross County man gets 8 years for child porn

A Chillicothe man was sentenced this week to eight years in prison after being convicted of child-pornography charges.

Jim Woods, The Columbus Dispatch

A Chillicothe man was sentenced this week to eight years in prison after being convicted of child-pornography charges.

William B. Noble, 48, was arrested in February after an investigation by the state attorney general’s Crimes Against Children unit.

Noble was convicted in Ross County Common Pleas Court on five charges of pandering obscenity involving a minor and three counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material.

Noble also was designated a Tier II sex offender, which will require him to register his address every 180 days for 25 years after he serves his prison term.

State Bureau of Criminal Investigation agents, assisted by Chillicothe police, searched Noble’s home in February and found that he had hundreds of photographs and videos of children.

“Our Crimes Against Children unit found that he was downloading, viewing and sharing child pornography, which means he victimized those children each and every time he looked at the images,” state Attorney General Mike DeWine said in a news release.